but I was created for more, so I live despite that all

Posts Tagged ‘passion’

I have more than ten people who I call my best friend. (Best and favorite are words I use in plural.) My dad says that my hobby is my friends. “Friends are all it’s about!” He says. At first, I didn’t like that he called it my hobby. But over the years, I realized, it’s true.

I love socializing. I love conversation and adventure and being with people. I have sacrificed quality study time for quality time with others. If any of you know what love languages are, my top one is quality time. My investment is into people, not my education. As I write this, I am procrastinating from studying for a midterm I have tomorrow. Everything within me knows I should be learning more about evolution and cooperation and social behavior. But this is my social behavior! To be communicating, expressing, giving, releasing. You could say it’s what I’m passionate about.

I am passionate about relationship. It’s how God made us. To be in relationship with Him and one another. And to glorify him through that. That is my deepest passion. That is what moves me and makes my blood pump.

The reason I am writing this is because I have met many people who are not passionate. They lack a drive and motive. I have had a friend tell me before that his life was boring. That nothing exciting was happening. So I asked him why he wasn’t doing something about it. Because he thought that that’s just how it was, as if there was nothing he could do.

That drives me bonkers!

We are created to be passionate. The best things are full of passion. When I think of passion I think of life. I think of love. I don’t know why I do anything without passion. There are a lot of things that are required of us that we put no passion into. Imagine if we did. I see passion as a verb. If I was passionate about ecology, my grades would look as good as my relationships do. If I was passionate about reading and writing like I wish I was, I would be setting aside time to invest into those as much time as I invest into my friends.

I want to live every moment with my heart pounding wildly in my chest. I want my eyes to be open wide, I want to see, smell, hear, touch and taste with clarity and excitement. I want to be full of purpose and intention and such a passion that it spreads like an STD.

Yeah. I said it. Are you passionate about anything? Does something move you to tears or make you angry or excited or happy?